Sentences with phrase «spiritual place for»

Beautiful sunrise sessions and yoga whilst the sun is setting over Mount Agung in Bali makes Gili a rather special and spiritual place for yoga.

«This year, it's going to the jungle, a spiritual place for me, before launching be.come,» she said.

The world will be a much more spiritual place for all of us when mankind has evolved beyond religion.

Not exact matches

But I'm always striving to place my greatest priorities outside of the professional sphere — to spend time with my wife and children, for example, and to satisfy my spiritual need.

Places like Rishikesh, considered the birthplace of yoga and where the Beatles went for spiritual instruction, are bound to attract digital nomads looking for a great location and a low cost of living.

«It was a place of huge spiritual significance for the country - two of its abbots were venerated as saints - and one utterly transformed by dramatic upheavals under Henry VIII.

After the devastating losses of the Civil War, people were searching for comfort and found it in a book called «The Gates Ajar,» which depicted Heaven as a place where people led normal lives in their «spiritual bodies,» with houses, families, and regular activities.

I would guess that any one who professes to «believe in God»; but places their hope for transforming individuals and society in a political ideology either has had very poor theological / spiritual formation or has a formal theological belief system about God or no first hand experience of God.

Are you looking for a pretty peaceful place to process your spiritual journey?

One place to see easily the variety of theological norms coming into play is in Wesley's Plain Account of Christian Perfection, perhaps both the key text for those who wished to sustain continuity with the spiritual experience of classical Wesleyanism and a source of much controversy with outsiders who found the key doctrine of the Wesleyan tradition offensive.

Healing is spiritual warfare... For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

They are searching for spiritual formation and communal belonging and finding them in places that church folks might consider unlikely.

Children who are privileged to have a faithfully married mother and father who are functionally literate and have a desire to instruct their offspring, and a commitment to the Church, are privileged indeed: for such children, home is already a place of education and spiritual nourishment.

We can see there is a coherence between the idea that the religiosity of mankind is a function of our mental architecture, and the idea that the human mind with its spiritual soul is made for union with God in the first place.

Emergents are the melting pot of Christianity, the place where hipsters who want to be spiritual but not religious go for community - typically a local brewery or Starbucks.

A point of communion is the practice, discipline or place in which the Spirit has created special access to the spiritual nourishment and manna needed for each season.

Dreams, for example, were given a high place as media of divine revelation; (Genesis 20:3; 26:24 - 25; 28:10 - 16; 31:24; 37:5; 41:1; 46:1 - 4; Judges 7:13 - 15; I Kings 3:5 - 15 etc.) omens were trusted, such as the first word to be uttered at an expected meeting, (I Samuel 14:8 - 15) or a chance action regarded as a sign, (Genesis 24:12 - 14) or wind in the mulberry - trees taken as Yahweh's command to join battle; (II Samuel 5:22 - 24) and, in general, dealing with the superhuman world suggested nothing so simple and spiritual as private communion in prayer, but rather a whole array of magical techniques and, from the modern point of view, incredible superstitions.

For this reason, all human communication takes place in a way that respects this spiritual and material composition.

Finding one's place in the fullness of this kind of spiritual community is a matter of what Whyte labeled for another realm «give and take... movement and color... walking quickly [and] walking slowly.»

I'd love for people to feel permission to actually go there — to lean into their doubts, lean into their questions, lean into the places of pain and grief or shifting — instead of leading a life of spiritual or intellectual dishonesty and pretending it's all fine.

Interests in God as useful to achieving personal wholeness, even of the most «spiritual» sort, and interests in God as necessary for social justice and emancipation, even the most urgent cases, will be under pressure to surrender pride of place to apparently irrelevant» interests in God that take the form of joy in and celebration of the odd ways God is present, for their own sake.

For in a spiritual sense, place is not something external, to which a slave might come against his will when the overseer uses his scourge.

Some churches I know pay for a spiritual director or a counselor for their pastors, not because they think their pastors are screwed up, but because they want to make sure there is healthy support in place since ministry can be brutal.

What complicates the acquiring of skill in this role is the resourcing already in place for the pastor as psychological counselor rather than as spiritual guide.

I'm grateful for the opportunities God gave me to minister to people in high places; people in power have spiritual and personal needs like everyone else, and often they have no one to talk to.

Thank you so much for this website, O most sacred heart of Jesus I place all my trust in you, I have been praying to cast away these evil spirits from me, they are the ones who cause bad thoughts to enter your spiritual body.

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

Billy Graham is one of the most spiritual men of our time... I do nt think you will have to worry about beng there when all things come to pass... i do nt think you will be in the same place... I commend him for supporting Chic fil a they have a right to stand by what they believe... they are not saying they will discrimnate or hate gays they just do nt support them..

So you're right, this is all spiritual warfare that is taking place for satan to «keep» the nonbelievers, and create doubt in Gods love and the salvation through Jesus Christ.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places Eph 6:12; Matt 10:28.

True creation takes place on a spiritual plane that is beyond the understanding of the ignorant yet clear as day for the elnightened.

Out of all this historical tangle and the scramble for orthodoxy, infallibility and spiritual superiority there was, of course, not much place for humility and penitence.

The revelers in Plato's Symposium insist on placing their drinking squarely in a moral framework; they regard drinking as a personal decision made with regard for physical, moral and spiritual welfare.

As the gospel writers make clear, Jesus returned to mountain and desert throughout his ministry for the explicit purpose of prayer.3 Down the centuries — from Desert Fathers to monastic communities to contemporary pilgrims — the wilderness has proved less a place of bewilderment than a setting to get one's spiritual bearings.

Vedanta Hinduism allows a place for theism, but tends to see it as a lower stage of spiritual development.

Ward shows that modern cosmology provides good arguments for the existence of a wise Creator, but considers that such arguments are only convincing if we accept the existence of Spiritual Reality in the first place.

The Refuge in Denver is a home for spiritual orphans, a place to gather hope.

«For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.»

In light of this, can it be agreed that a study of theology that takes place, as at Steubenville, alongside a firm spiritual practice (Mass, adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, traditional Marian and other devotions) and a clear moral stance (students living celibate lives supported by households and communities) is a necessary part of a strategy for Catholic theology?

In The Bible Tells Me So, Peter Enns attempts to present an approach to Scripture which allows for us to accept that it has historical and scientific errors and that it contradicts itself at various places, and yet still retain the Bible as an important witness to the theological and spiritual struggles which were faced by our forefathers in the faith, and more importantly, as a historical document about the life of Jesus and how the death and resurrection of Jesus resulted in the transformation of the first century mediterranean world.

Gehenna was thus always associated with a place of bodily and spiritual punishment, not only for the Jews, but for all evil people.

Some rejected it altogether, some looked for the resurrection of the few, some looked for the resurrection of all, some saw it in spiritual terms, some in physical terms, some saw it as taking place on earth, some referred it to Sheol, some pictured it in a heavenly sphere.

For Schleiermacher, the solidarity of the race and its mutual struggle toward spiritual existence from a starting place of sensuous existence accounts for the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as weFor Schleiermacher, the solidarity of the race and its mutual struggle toward spiritual existence from a starting place of sensuous existence accounts for the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as wefor the universal tendency of humans to act against one another's good, and so against their own good as well.

For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

They describe it as a home for spiritual orphans, a place to gather hope.

Now for the actual facts: According to Newsweek, this is a place that takes Catholicism seriously, but to the author of the Salon piece, the closest we get is a reference to, «We rocked out to Christian music with our hands in the air, watched people convulse in spiritual conversions as they were «saved» or «born again» and heard priests speak in tongues.»

Mosques in China, as centers for spiritual inspiration and social activities, are used as a place of worship, prayer, and chanting — and also used as a meeting place, a school, a place to perform Islamic ceremonies, a funeral home, and a judicial court.

Every since mankind has been as the Apostle described us in his epistle (Again, 2 nd Timothy 3:1 - 5; see also what Jesus said in Mark 7:20 - 23), the only thing that has «advanced «at our hands is our architecture, our technology, and our search for medicinal cures for what ails us.No one is denying that we've done tremendous good with these various advances, but we've also done awful, vicious, horrendous atrocities and brutalities as well.I've heard it quoted that out of all the centuries, millennia that we've considered ourselves «civilized», we've had only a few hundred years where something approximating peace has held sway among us.So again, I'm all world seeking to «make the world a better place», as it were; I just believe that mankind in his present moral, ethical, and spiritual configuration is capable of doing so.We can always enhance out technological prowess, improve our architechural designs, and make our drugs more powerful, but what about our hearts?

She tries to say something along the lines of people have some innate desire for spiritual fulfillment (which I could buy into, if one clearly defines what they mean), but never provides any supporting information as to how this is true and, particularly, how does this have to do with her god in the first place.

We don't demand or expect change, yet this often takes place as a gradual unseen process and looks different for every individual once a significant spiritual walk with Christ begins to take root.